I love the rocket, washing machine and the robot dog.I am collecting W & G early figures from ebay.It's great fun and really cheers me up when I see them in my cabinet.
I am currently compiling a price list and pix from ebay in order to track what is out there for sale.
Wait for the book.

Gromit is the coolest, smartest pooch ever put on celluloid. He's perhaps the most expressive silent film star since the days of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. And when he's on screen with Wallace, they make the perfect comedic duo. They remind me of both Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy. But Nick Park's creations are totally original as well. All hail Aardman's greatest characters!

Even though there not a main character I think one of my favourite characters is Mrs. Mulch, she is just a jolly old lady really and she is so funny. In Curse of the Were Rabbit where the vicar is in the church on his own at night and something comes in, when that thing Burps the Vicar is wondering who or what it is and says "Mrs. Mulch"